Google announced Wednesday that it is planning to make Zagat, the restaurant-ratings publisher that it bought last year for $151 million in cash, the cornerstone of a new free service, Google Plus Local, reports Glenn Collins of The New York Times....

October 2, 2011, Sunday

What happens when Google takes over? On his personal blog, Dave Reisner, Zagat's operations developer, documents the first two days under Google's rule. Mr. Reisner calls it his "nerdy dream come true."